E UROCODES S PREADSHEETS S TRUCTURAL D ESIGN

S ECTION 3 E UROCODE 1 EN 1991-1-3: A NNEX C, A NNEX D

This will eliminate or reduce the inconsistencies of snow load values in CEN
member states and at borderlines between countries. The European snow map
developed by the Research Group are divided into 9 different homogeneous
climatic regions, as shown in Figures C.1 to C.10.

Climatic Region Expression

A 2
Alpine Region: s k =  0 642Z + 0 009  1 +  --------- 
 728 

A 2
Central East: s k =  0 264Z – 0 002  1 +  --------- 
 256 

A 2
Greece: s k =  0 420Z – 0 030  1 +  --------- 
 917 

A 2
Iberian Peninsula: s k =  0 190Z – 0 095  1 +  --------- 
 524 

A 2
Mediterranean Region: s k =  0 498Z – 0 209  1 +  --------- 
 452 

A-
s k = 0 164Z – 0 082 + --------
Central West:
966

A-
s k = 0 790Z + 0 375 + --------
Sweden, Finland:
336

A-
s k = 0 140Z – 0 1 + --------
UK, Republic of Ireland:
501

Table 3.8 From Table C.1 - Altitude - Snow Load Relationships.

In each climatic region a given load-altitude correlation formula applies and this
is given in Table C.1 above where:
• s k is the characteristic snow load on the ground  kN  m 2 
• A is the site altitude above Sea Level [m]
• Z is the zone number given on the map (1; 2; 3; 4; 4,5).

3.2 Annex D: Adjustment of the ground snow load according to return period

Ground level snow loads for any mean recurrence interval different to that for the
characteristic snow load, s k , (which by definition is based on annual probability
of exceedence of 0,02) may be adjusted to correspond to characteristic values by
application of Sections D(2) to D(4). If the available data show that the annual
maximum snow load can be assumed to follow a Gumbel probability
distribution, then the relationship between the characteristic value of the snow

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